In chapter 3 of “Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter,” 50 talks about the importance of having the right people around you. He opens the chapter with “a successful entrepreneur's greatest skill is being an astute judge of character.” He talks about the streets and how the lowest level in that game is the steerer - they were responsible for directing customers. By far one of the riskiest positions to manage in that type of work because they didn’t make much money, had no real investments, and they were on the front line, so-to-speak. This position had a lot of turnover and had a high risk of being approached by law enforcement, which also meant there was a high probability of them implicating key figures in an organization.

Okay, I’m not trying to teach you how to open your own street business, but I do want to emphasize that looking at folks' character can keep you out of a world of trouble in education too.

If a network can defined as an arrangement of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines, who do you want connected to you?

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